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Addison Rae Easterling (born October 6, 2000), known professionally as Addison Rae, is an American social media personality and dancer who rose to fame on the social media app TikTok for uploading short dancing and lip-syncing videos. After downloading the TikTok app in July 2019, Easterling's account became an overnight sensation and she immediately went viral. She has amassed 29.4 million followers on TikTok and 9.9 million followers on Instagram as of March 2020. She is the 7th most followed user on TikTok.

Career
Easterling's career began in July 2019 when she downloaded the TikTok app and made a post with a friend that got 93,000 likes. She then got her mother Sheri involved in her videos, which made her account grow even more rapidly. One of her videos with her mother not only caught the attention of TikTok users, but also the attention of Mariah Carey, who liked the video, making Easterling's account more popular.

In August 2016, Easterling created a YouTube account called "Addison Rae." She posted her first video in August 2019, and has amassed 941 thousand subscribers on the platform as of March 2020. Her YouTube channel is comprised of vlog-style videos documenting her daily life, her makeup routines, and her travels. She posted a video in February 2020 called "TikTokers Visit NYC," which featured other popular TikTok members such as Dixie D'Amelio. In November 2019, she was featured in a YouTube video titled “Letter To My Future Girlfriend feat. Addison Easterling,” which was written and put together by social media star Donnoven Nguyen.

In January 2020, it was announced that Easterling, her mother, and her father, are represented by talent agency WME. Her deal with WME focuses on expanding her brand across modelling, music, dance, TV, film, touring, licensing, and endorsements.

She has done endorsement and modelling work for various brands such as Chantilly Boutique, Uptown Cheapskate, and McCary’s Jewellers.

In February 2020, Easterling appeared in an Entertainment Tonight episode titled "ET TikTok Takeover" with other members of The Hype House. She told Entertainment Tonight that she is trying to get into acting and is interested in being featured on the Netflix original series, Stranger Things.

The Hype House
Easterling is part of a group of 21 TikTok users who formed a collective called The Hype House, which is also a physical house in Los Angeles that she frequents. The content creator collective was established in December 2019, and includes popular TikTok users such as Charli D'Amelio, Chase Hudson, and Avani Gregg. Each member regularly creates cross-promotional content, both in the house and elsewhere.

Personal Life
Easterling's immediate family includes: her father, Monty Lopez, her mother, Sheri Easterling, and her two younger brothers, Enzo and Lucas. Easterling's mother and father have created their own TikTok accounts and amassed 4.1 million and 1.4 million followers on the app respectively.

Easterling is from Lafayette, Louisiana, and graduated from Calvary Baptist Academy in Shreveport, Louisiana in 2019. She moved to Los Angeles in December 2019.

Easterling is a professionally trained dancer and cheerleader who began taking dance lessons when she was six years old. She is a member of the Shreveport Dance Academy and has participated in various dance events since childhood. She has said that contemporary dance is her favourite dance style, followed by jazz. She also enjoys hip-hop, but has said that it is more difficult for her to perform due to its complex choreography.

She is interested in sports, and played softball for her high school team called the "Lady Cavs," which won the 2016 Class 2A State Championship. In June 2018, Easterling attended the All-American “Universal Cheerleaders Association” camp.

In Popular Culture
In March 2020, Australian rapper and singer, The Kid Laroi, released a song written about Easterling called "Addison Rae." Easterling reacted to the song on her TikTok channel in a video with her mother, and has since agreed to be featured in the music video for the song.